The next day, I checked the batteries with my VOM, and sure enough, both were on death’s doorstep. I couldn’t really be certain, but I guess, yeah… A part of me thought they were dimmer, too. “Seemed dimmer” is a pretty subjective thing. Nothing blew-up! In fact, it seemed as if everything was back to normal.Ī couple of weeks later, though, as I was still cursing the Forest River engineers who’d designed this thing, certain that none had graduated top of their class, my wife pointed out that the house lights “seemed dimmer” than usual. We got the leak fixed, put a fan in front of the power center for a few hours, and crossed our fingers as I reconnected shore power. Wouldn’t it have made (a lot) more sense to put the water filter below the electric panel, maybe with a drip pan beneath it? So, when it began to drip, there was an immediate arching sound, and I raced outside to cut the shore power. You’d think that the manufacturer would have placed the filter below anything that could be damaged by water, since it’s all but guaranteed to leak at some point, but no… They installed it directly above the trailer’s Parallax 7355 power station. We didn’t even know it was there until it started to leak. ![]() The second thing I learned was that most RV makers don’t tend to hire the “best & brightest” engineers.Ĭase-in-point, our Forest River travel trailer had a completely useless water filter built-into the very back of an almost completely inaccessible bathroom cabinet (we use an external filter, so this was redundant). The first thing I learned when I became an RV owner was that pretty much everything will need to be repaired or replaced, and usually sooner, rather than later.
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